Twenty-storied Leonard Cohen
stretches himself along
Montreal’s gray streets of broken
dreams. His ballads prolong
the pain. This scion of Aaron
offers all those who don’t belong
shattered love and heaven.
The city prefers its icon
to the mystery
of this poet who shunned neon.
Sidelined matriarchy–
Judy Blue Eyes
Suzanne Verdal
Joni Mitchell
Janis Joplin
Anjari Thomas–
an embroidered chevron
on his tunic of reverie.
He wrung out words, a python
squeezing out punchy imagery.
A bird on a pylon
singing love’s boundary.
